Bundle-carrier



(No Model.)

B. A. KENNEDY au J. P. STEWARD.

BUNDLE CARRIER.

, Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

AUNITED STATES BURR A.

PATENT OEEICE.

BUNDLE-ommen.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,934, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed July T0 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, BURR A. KENNEDY and Jenn F. STEWART), citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new andusefnl Improvements in Bundle- Carriers, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in the details ot' the structure of bundle-carriers of the general character shownin pending application of Kennedy and Steward, filed July Z7, 1885, Serial No. 172,762.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a bundle-carrier and the outer portion of the harvester-frame to which it is attached, as seen from the front outer quarter. Fig.2 is a transverse vertical section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through line Y X on Fig. 2. Fig. et is a stubble-side elevation of the bundle-carrier when in the position for dumping. Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of one of the arms of the carrier, showing a stop thereon. Fig. G is a detail perspective of such stop detached from the arm.

A is a trusscd frame, constituting the stubble end of a harvester-frame. The segment M constitutes the strut of said trussed frame, besides serving the usual purpose of guiding the drive-wheel in. the vertical adjustment of the machine.

A A truss A.

B B are metal bars bolted to the truss or frame bar A and projecting outward across the line of travel. B B are similar bars bolted to the nprights A A.

C is a bar of channel-iron set edgewisethat is, with its anges C and O2 horizontaland the channel opening outward. It is secured to the outer ends of the bars B and B by the bolts b, passing through both the nanges C and Ci, and through the ends ot' two of the bars, B, above the upper flange, and through ends of the remaining bars B, below are upright posts rigid with the the lower flange, the blocks B2 being placed between the tlanges to resist the compression of the bolts and give them tirm grasp on the bars.

22,1886. Serial No. 20S,T95.

(No model.)

Ihe bundlecarrying arms comprise the horizontal portion D', the vertical or pivotal portion D, the short horizontal portion D, and the inner vertical portion, I)*.

E is the shifting-bar, which is vertically pierced to receive the ends of the vertical portions D of the carrierarms and upheld by the hooked portion D40 at the end of two or more of them.

F is a cranked rockshaft, which is connected to suitable mechanism for shifting the bar E lengthwise to cause it to swing the carrier-arms about their axial portions D2, in order to fold them together when theload is to be dumped. As illustrated, said rock-shaft is journaled in bearings provided in the bracket F', secured to the rear bar, B, and in the bracket F2, secured to any convenient part ot' the harvester-frame, 'as to a post, A2. It has the oblique crank-arm F, extending stubble- Ward from the first-mentioned bearing, and the end of said crankarm is linked to the shift ing-bar E. Grainward beyond its secondmentioned bearing it has the crank-arm F*, which is connected to the foot-lever F5 by the link FG, suitably pivoted on any convenient part of the frame, so that by the pressure ot' the foot on one pedal, f5, the carrier may be du mped, and by pressure on the other pedal, F5", it may be restored to position to receive and carry the bundles.

The bearings ofthe axial portiofns D2 of the carrier-arms are obtained in the two iianges C and C2 of the channel-iron C. The apertures c in the upper ilange, C,.are large enough merely to allow the carrier-arms free movement as they turn therein and to permit the slight change of direction of the axial ,portions D2, which occurs when the bundle-carrier is folded and ready for dumping. rlhe apertures ci in the lower flange, C2, are elongated, as shown, the rear end of each aperture being slightly rearward of the vertical line passing through the corresponding aperture in the upper ange, so that the forward end ot said elongated aperture cl is forward of that vertical line a dist-ance almost equal to the entire length of the aperture.

When Vthe carrierarms are in the positions shown in Fig. l-that is to say, in position to retain a load-the axial portions D2 of the sev- ICO their load.

eral arms rest each at the extreme rear of the aperture c2, which forms their lower bearings, and thek portions D extend very slightly forward of positions at right angles to the bar C, so that the weight of any load resting upon any of said horizontal arms tends to hold the axial portions in the positions described. Vhen, however, the shifting-bar E is moved forward, causing the arms D to swing rearward as soon as they pass, respectively, positions extending from the bar C at right angles thereto, the weight of the load upon them tends to throw their axial portions D2 to the forward end of the slots c2, respectively, thereby allowing the ends of the arms D to drop upon the ground and trail rearward,and thus discharge The same action of the carrierarms occurs whenever an obstruction is met which forcibly moves said arms sufficiently rearward to carry them past their centers respectively.

In order that the frame composed of the four bars B B, B and B and the channel-iron C may be sufficiently rigid to prevent its distortion by encountering slight obstructions or by dragging upon the ground, as would occur when the wheel runs in a deep fnrrow,we provide the brace-bar G, secured to the lower forward bar B as far outward as it can be without interfering with the movement of theshifting-bar E, and extending thence rearward and inward beyond the rear lower bar B, to which it may be bolted, if desired, and secure it at the rear end to the rearmost available point on the truss or end bar of the harvester-frame.

To prevent bending the bars B upward, as well as to further brace them against rearward distortion,we provide the braces G2, which are secured to the lower bars B, as far outward as convenient, and thence extended to the outer segment, M, to which they are fastened as high as possible, thus bracing diagonally downward, one rearward and the other forward.

rlhe carrier-arms are usually made of steel rod, bent into the'forni described, and their several bends are preferably not made sharply angular but rounded. In order therefore that their positions in their bearings in the bar C should be exact and uniform, and particularly in order that they may not cramp in the upper bearing, c,when they are rocked therein, as described, we provide the clip H, which is composed of the two wings H and H2, substantially at right angles, the former having an aperture, h', through which the carrierarm may be inserted, so that the clip may be moved on the arm to the angle d2 at the upper end 0f the axial portion D2, in which position the wing H2 bears against the under side of the horizontal part D3. Said wing H2 has the two lugs h2, which may bebent up around the part D?, and, if desired, inay be firmly clamped thereon. The wing H thus forms a square shoulder or stop above the ange C of the channel-iron C, and renders exact and uniform the position of the carrierarms in their bearings.

In order that the lugs h2 may be sufticiently flexible to be bent as described, the entire clip is made of malleable iron or cut and folded from sheet metal. Obviously both wings of the clip H might be made as we have described the wing H2, the lugs when bent together around the rod becoming in effect an apertured Wing, as H. l

l. In combination with the harvester-frame, the bundle-carrier frame comprising four bars, as B B B B', extended rigidly outward from the stubble end of the harvester-frame, and the channel-iron secured to the outer ends of said bars, having its lips horizontal and the intermediate web Vertical, and the carrierarms journaledin the said horizontal lips, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the harvester-frame, the bundle-carrierframe comprising four bars, as B B B B', extending rigidly outward from the stubble end of the harvester-frame, and a bar, as C, secured to the outer end of the bars B B B B', having its lips horizontal and the intermediate web vertical, and the carrierarms journaledin the saidrhorizontal lips and a brace-bar, as G, secured at its forward end to one of the forward bars B near its outer end and at the rear end to the rear outer portion of the harvester-frame, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with a trussed frame forming the stubble end of the harvester-frame, the bundle-carrier comprising the four bars B B B B, extended rigidly outward from said truss, and a bar, as C, secured to their` outer ends, and braces, as G2, secured to the trussed frame near its widest part and to the outer ends of the lower bars, B, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with the bundle-carrier arms formed and adapted to operate substantially as described, the channel-iron bar C, fixed with its web vertical and its flanges horizontal and having the apertures c', and in its lower flange the elongated apertures c2, constituting, respectively, the upper and lower bearings for the carrierarms.

5. In combination with'the carrier-arms hav- IOO IISn

ing the vertical axial portions D2 and the v horizontal portion D, the angular clips H, having the apertured wing H', and the wing H2, atan angle with the wing H,and provided with the flexible lugs h2, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands, this 9th day of July, A. D. 1886, in the presence of two witnesses, at Chicago, Illinois.

BURR A. KENNEDY. JOHN F. STEWARD.

Witnesses:

H. J. NEEL, XYM. D. PORTER. 

